Crumby floors

I have had the unique pleasure of being involved since 2006 in working with an organisation that helps orphans around the world.

It’s called Orphans Aid International and they have just celebrated 20 years of changing lives. My good friend Sue van Schreven, who runs OIA once shared a very touching Facebook link with me.

She wrote: “I stood on some crumbs on the floor this morning and complained to myself that there were crumbs on the floor.

Then it hit me. I have CRUMBS … on my floor, how marvellous!

I have crumbs and I have a floor.

I’ve watched kids in India searching for crumbs, wiping a tin plate after eating a dry biscuit hoping for another crumb.

Kids on the street hoping to find a big crumb or maybe if they are lucky even a dry crust.

Some perspective needed here I thought.

I have crumbs and I have a floor. I’m one of the lucky ones.

So now I want to try and give some crumbs (actually crumbs joined together would be good) and a floor.

Today in India our co-workers are buying plastic bag coverings for the children we feed who live on the pavement.

They don’t have a floor either or a roof! It would be so awesome for them to live in a place that had crumbs on a floor.

So really, I’m fundraising for crumby floors, for more 50 cent roofs because last night the kids we feed couldn’t sleep because the plastic bags they sleep under have some big holes in them and they’re soaking wet.

Its raining in Kolkata, and your help will help us buy some coverings and help us get crumbs on floors! I’d love your help. Let’s put some crumbs on some floors.”

Thank you, Sue – you have been blowing my mind for 18 years and I know you will again – repeatedly!